Badge of Honor

He must be doing something right:

NYT: Bloomberg Cast As Enemy No. 1 of Gun Rights

In towns large and small across the country, Mr. Bloomberg, a Republican, has emerged as the face of gun control in America. Under his guidance, a coalition called Mayors Against Illegal Guns has grown in little more than a year from a skeletal group of 15 into an organization of 225 leaders of towns and cities — many of them Democrats — who are pursuing legal, political and media strategies to stem gun crime....

Though it is difficult to measure its effectiveness, the coalition — particularly Mr. Bloomberg — has caught the eye, and fueled the ire, of gun rights groups, many of which contend that the coalition is trying to undermine a constitutionally protected right to bear arms....

And the National Rifle Association, a lobbying superpower in Washington and many statehouses, has vilified Mr. Bloomberg on its Web site and in its publications, putting him on the cover of a widely distributed magazine.

Any politician who is an irritant to gun nuts is okay by me. And having the gun nuts' co-chief enabler¹ the loathsome, bullying, morally bankrupt NRA hate you is a badge of honor.

¹The NRA's co-chief enablers are, of course, our pandering politicians, including John Edwards, Bill Richardson, and Harry Reid, among others.